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Interior Design Undergraduate Program

The interior design program at Kansas State University provides a first professional degree in a four-year curriculum. Graduates are prepared for entry-level positions in the interior design profession. K-State's interior design program is ranked 8th in the country by DesignIntelligence on behalf of the Design Futures Council. Our interior design program is accredited by both the Council for Interior Design Accreditation and National Association of Schools of Art and Design; and provides an excellent foundation to begin your career.

Our graduates are also prepared to attend graduate schools of their choice in a variety of disciplines or specializations including, but not limited to, interior design, lighting design, historic preservation and architecture. Recent graduates have earned graduate degrees at the University of Texas, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Kansas and the University of Oxford (UK).

The interior design program in the College of Human Ecology emphasizes the interactions between humans and the interior environment. Students are encouraged to become professionals who design interior spaces that are sustainable, founded on evidence-based strategies, and enhance user satisfaction, health, wellbeing, productivity and safety for all and at all stages of life.

As part of this four-year professional program, students develop expertise in critical and synthetic thinking so that they become exemplary professionals able to articulate client needs through pre-design data collection and analysis, programming, design, construction documentation and post-occupancy evaluation. Students develop the ability to understand and apply design research to their work and are given the opportunity to engage in an undergraduate research project in their final year of study.

Students have many opportunities for contact with professionals throughout the tenure of their studies. The curriculum includes opportunities for summer internships for academic credit, a variety of domestic and foreign study tours, and study abroad experiences through relationships between Kansas State University and several foreign universities. Students in the interior design program have opportunities to work in teams, participate in service learning projects, and learn from professionals in the region who participate as critics and guest lecturers.